LaTeX 2008 have broken circ packag. Solution which works is to override the fonts for circ by circ fonts CTAN. It would be nice if it was patched in Gentoo (google shows it is popular problem) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[basic,box,gate,oldgate,ic,optics,physics]{circ} \begin{document} \begin{circuit}{0} \.1 \end{circuit} \end{document} Actual Results: This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./test.tex LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, polish, ukenglish, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/home/uzytkownik/Sources/circ/circ.sty (/home/uzytkownik/Sources/circ/basic.def) (/home/uzytkownik/Sources/circ/box.def) (/home/uzytkownik/Sources/circ/gate.def ) (/home/uzytkownik/Sources/circ/oldgate.def) (/home/uzytkownik/Sources/circ/ic.def) (/home/uzytkownik/Sources/circ/optics.def) (/home/uzytkownik/Sources/circ/physics.def)) (./test.aux) kpathsea: Running mktextfm cibimos mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cibimos This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (Web2C 7.5.7) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/circ/cibimos.mf (/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/circ/defcirc.mf CIRC %<*cibimos> CIRC \freecirc CIRC \addCIRCfont cibimos CIRC %</cibimos> CIRC %<+doc> \optionline CIRC %<*cibimos,doc> Runaway definition? message("CIRC %</"&font_identifier_&",doc>");message("CIRC %<*"&font_identifier _ ETC. ! Forbidden token found while scanning the definition of endCIRCfont. <inserted text> enddef <to be read again> bye l.45 bye ; ) ) (see the transcript file for additional information) Font metrics written on cibimos.tfm. Transcript written on cibimos.log. mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cibimos' failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \c*fntt=cibimos not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. \*mag ->\@m \relax l.4 \begin{circuit}{0} ? ! Emergency stop. \*mag ->\@m \relax l.4 \begin{circuit}{0} No pages of output. Transcript written on test.log. Expected Results: This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./test.tex LaTeX2e <2005/12/01> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, polish, ukenglish, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/circ/circ.sty (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/circ/basic.def) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/circ/box.def) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/circ/gate.def) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/circ/oldgate.def) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/circ/ic.def) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/circ/optics.def) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/circ/physics.def)) (./test.aux) kpathsea: Running mktextfm cibimos mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cibimos This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (Web2C 7.5.7) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/circ/cibimos.mf (/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/circ/defcirc.mf CIRC %<*cibimos> CIRC \freecirc CIRC \addCIRCfont cibimos CIRC %</cibimos> CIRC %<+doc> \optionline CIRC %<*cibimos,doc> ) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/circ/csym.mf) [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] CIRC \cdefiviv npnPH T \CIRCcibimos 80 E C CIRC %<+doc> {photo transistor} [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] ) Font metrics written on cibimos.tfm. Output written on cibimos.600gf (88 characters, 57532 bytes). Transcript written on cibimos.log. mktextfm: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/public/circ/cibimos.tfm: successfully generated. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ciwidko mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ciwidko This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (Web2C 7.5.7) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/circ/ciwidko.mf (/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/circ/csym.mf) [0] [1] [24] [25] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [128] [129] [130] [131] [136] [137] [138] [139] ) Font metrics written on ciwidko.tfm. Output written on ciwidko.600gf (28 characters, 20612 bytes). Transcript written on ciwidko.log. mktextfm: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/public/circ/ciwidko.tfm: successfully generated. kpathsea: Running mktextfm cisym mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cisym This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (Web2C 7.5.7) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/circ/cisym.mf (/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/circ/csym.mf) [1] [2] [3] [4] [12] [5] [13] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [16] [17] [24] [25] ) Font metrics written on cisym.tfm. Output written on cisym.600gf (17 characters, 4300 bytes). Transcript written on cisym.log. mktextfm: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/public/circ/cisym.tfm: successfully generated. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ciphysic mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ciphysic This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (Web2C 7.5.7) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/circ/ciphysic.mf (/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/circ/defcirc.mf CIRC %<*ciphysic> CIRC \freecirc CIRC \addCIRCfont ciphysic CIRC %</ciphysic> CIRC %<+doc> \optionline physics CIRC %<*ciphysic,doc> ) CIRC \cdef spring k \CIRCciphysic 0 CIRC %<+doc> {spring} [0] [1] CIRC \cdef lspring k \CIRCciphysic 2 CIRC %<+doc> {long spring} [2] [3] CIRC \cdef fdmass m \CIRCciphysic 4 CIRC %<+doc> {mass with two forces; full drawn} [4] [5] CIRC \cdef dmass m \CIRCciphysic 6 CIRC %<+doc> {mass with two forces; outlined} [6] [7] CIRC \cdefiv fmass m \CIRCciphysic 8 . * CIRC %<+doc> {mass; full drawn} [8] [9] [10] [11] CIRC \cdefiv mass m \CIRCciphysic 12 . * CIRC %<+doc> {mass; outlined} [12] [13] [14] [15] CIRC \cdefiv wall {} \CIRCciphysic 16 . | CIRC %<+doc> {wall} [16] [17] [18] [19] CIRC \cdefiv tile {} \CIRCciphysic 20 . * CIRC %<+doc> {tile} [20] [21] [22] [23] CIRC \cdef spinu S \CIRCciphysic 24 CIRC %<+doc> {spin up} [24] [25] CIRC \cdef spind S \CIRCciphysic 26 CIRC %<+doc> {spin down} [26] [27] CIRC %</ciphysic,doc> CIRC %<*ciphysic> CIRC \protectcirc CIRC %</ciphysic> ) Font metrics written on ciphysic.tfm. Output written on ciphysic.600gf (28 characters, 12760 bytes). Transcript written on ciphysic.log. mktextfm: /var/cache/fonts/tfm/public/circ/ciphysic.tfm: successfully generated. [1{//var/lib/t exmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./test.aux) ) <//var/cache/fonts/pk/ ljfour/public/circ/cirest.600pk></usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/c mr10.pfb> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 3795 bytes). Transcript written on test.log.
this is fixed in texlive-latexextra-2009 (which will be unmasked soon, hopefuly)
